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Greater Chicago Area

• Recruited by the Vice President of Quality Assurance to purchase and implement a document management software solution and serve as Document Control Manager dedicated to a $500M Industrial Water Treatment Project.
• Formed a cross functional team to research and evaluate document management software solutions.
• Earned approval for a $355K Capital Investment for document management software, IT hardware and implementation services.
• Developed and documented the ISO 9001 procedures required to implement the document management solution.
• Generated the document management instruction manuals and trained four project teams from two business units to use the new software.
• Successfully implemented the document management software solution utilizing the full software capability across three projects to date.

Greater Chicago Area

• Challenged by Director of Product Design to integrate the vehicle and engine group organization processes into a single Product Development enterprise, generating collaboration between divergent organizations.
• Led a team of 7 engineers to develop and implement a single software based workflow production specification change control process, successfully replacing the manual paper based process.
• Built a cross-functional team that successfully migrated CAD System from SDRC IDEAS to SIEMENS NX 7.0, moving thousands of CAD design files from one system to the next with no disruption to production process.
• Effectively trained 300+ members of the Engineering design community to use the new software based change control process, and Siemens NX 7.0 CAD System.

Greater Chicago Area

• Tasked to lead the Engine Group’s design resources, training and allocating teams of CAD designers and Product Specification administrators to the product development departments.
• Completed 3 UAW contract negotiations achieving flexibility and relaxed work rules, ensuring business needs met delivery, quality and cost targets.
• Managed CAD System and supporting hardware thru 3 major software upgrades without a work stoppage or production delay.
• Led a team thought the timely implementation of Team Center 2005 CAD Data management software.
• Managed Production Specification Release Process, improving efficiency as product platforms doubled and product variability increased significantly.
• Outsourced Engineering design team of 45 Engineers to India implementing a globally sourced process that reduced cost and maintained quality.

Greater Chicago Area

• Selected to manage engine group development laboratory operations thru increasing capacity demands and labor contract changes.
• Provided leadership of multiple departments and over 150 employees in product development laboratory operations the emissions certification.
• Implemented ERP software system that improved prototype inventory and engine build efficiency. Team received National Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ award for business process improvement.
• Planned and implemented over $10M in major capitol equipment improvement projects to upgrade laboratory facilities.

Greater Chicago Area

• Chosen from the Product Maintenance Group to become a Six Sigma Black Belt in Process Improvements.
• Applied Six Sigma statistical methods to emissions development testing, improving the efficiency of test operations and reducing the amount of out-sourced testing.

Greater Chicago Area

• Promoted to Engineering Manager to lead and manage Product Development teams that create and implement product and profitability improvements.
• Developed and implemented a Feature Based Ordering specification system that reduced the number of production assembly specifications by 800 units/ year.
• In support of the Navistar/Ford partnership, served as a member of the QS9000 implementation team. Documented and audited engineering processes to ensure compliance with the QS9000 standard.
• Engineering Lead on Commodity Teams for the selection of component suppliers.
• Steering Committee for the migration from IBM CADAM (2-D) to SDRC IDEAS (3-D Solids) software.

Greater Chicago Area

• Diesel Engine Design Engineer with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Responsibilities for the concept, design, qualification and production implementation of engine components that included precision machining of sand and permanent molded castings and forgings, and fabricated sheet.